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A near-complete skull of a Denisovan, one of the closest extinct relatives of modern humans, has never been recovered – or so ...

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For over a decade, the Denisovans were anthropology's most mysterious cousins — a ghost line whose existence was known almost solely from ancient DNA, a child's pinky bone, and a rumor of genes that s ...